Fourth of July

Happy belated 4th of July everyone! We had a great day, making caramel corn...(Hobbs family tradition).....
Yummy caramel....
We went to the Vale parade where it was so hot that Madison lost the will to collect candy after about five minutes. 107 in the shade baby! Even with Madison on strike we were able to collect the bottom of the stroller full of candy and onions....that's right...they toss onions at this parade. Well, saved me a trip to the store!
Here I am roasting at the parade with our poor little baby.
And of course Benjamin slept through the whole thing. I was glad

he survived the heat.

Madison and Brian lit off all the fireworks...hopefully sating their pyromania for the next eleven months. Honestly, how are we supposed to teach our kids not to play with matches when we let the husbands loose with serious firepower at least once a year? I've never been one who was really into the whole fireworks thing (you can almost hear the sharp intake of breath from those who would consider this SERIOUSLY un-American of me), so naturally I let Brian work on training Madison to love lighting things on fire. And so far, so good on that subject...she loves blowing things up just as much as her daddy...how sweet:).